Ennuipoet:This is the most accurate headline I have ever read on of Fark. I have no farking clue what the hell this article is talking about.

"Skol a beer, film it, then dob in their friends"

Put tobacco dip into your beer, take a video with your iPhone as you drink it, then ... um, something...uh, Dobby? Pretend to be an elf from the Harry Potter series and everyone has a good laugh hahahahaha!!!

Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!

SecretAgentWoman:Ennuipoet: This is the most accurate headline I have ever read on of Fark. I have no farking clue what the hell this article is talking about.

"Skol a beer, film it, then dob in their friends"

Put tobacco dip into your beer, take a video with your iPhone as you drink it, then ... um, something...uh, Dobby? Pretend to be an elf from the Harry Potter series and everyone has a good laugh hahahahaha!!!

When I lived there, dobbing on or dobbing in someone meant telling on them, ie reporting them to the authorities.

I'm not sure how that applies here. It was...sweet fark, 25 years ago. I think the language has evolved since then, or the Victorians in this article don't speak my Queensland slang.

At least they aren't cold cocking defenseless people for fun, as far as I can tell.If they want to put dip in their beer and then puke on their friends, I'm OK with that./still have no clue what the article was talking about.//was I even close?

Mock26:Infinitely better than planking, leisure diving, or that milk smashing thing. At least with this the people are drinking some beer. Of course, this trend is probably what led to the other trends.

Fine, as an Aussie, I'll translate. 'Boot' = trunk. A Schooner is 425ml - its a measurement only used in NSW and QLD (2 states of Aus), the rest of us use imperial measures; pints (568ml/20 ounces) and pots (284ml/10 ounces). Not sure when it started being spelled 'skol' rather than 'skull'...

That's the 2nd time Bob Hawke (former PM, Rhodes scholar, PhD in Economics, former head of the trade unions) has skulled a beer in front of a cricket crowd recently. He's 82 btw. And a farking champion.

The game is - you skull a beer, which in Victoria means a pint, in NSW and Queensland a schooner - and then nominate the next person to do so. If they fail to do so... well, they get shiat for the rest of the night, or perhaps something more elaborate, depending on who's playing.

The article seems to be suggesting that young people are drinking irresponsibly. Something their parents would NEVER have done of course... I know, I'm ashamed too...

sjcousins:In 1989 David boon (cricketer) drank a record 52 cans of beer on a flight to London.

IIRC, by doing so he beat the record of Rod Marsh (cricketer) from the 1981 Ashes Tour. Marsh had passed out by the time they landed at Heathrow Airport so his best mate, the legendary fast bowler Dennis Lillee, had to wheel his drunken sleeping arse through airport customs on a trolley.

Marsh made a point of waking up early the next morning. When Lillee and the rest of the jet-lagged Australian cricket team came down for breakfast they found Marsh sitting at the hotel bar sipping on an early-morning "hair of the dog" beer.

Australia won the first Test of the six match series and drew the second. In the third Test at Leeds Australia had England absolutely farked by the end of the third day of play, and were on the verge of going 2-0 up in the series. For a joke, Marsh and Lillee visited one of the betting tents at the ground and put a small troll bet on England winning (from a virtually unwinnable position) at 500-1 odds. They ended up giving the thousands of pounds they won to charity.

England's Ian Botham proceeded to smash an amazingly unlikely unbeaten innings of 149 runs, and Australia lost the game by 18 runs and went on to lose the series, and the Ashes, due to more Botham heroics. To this day that series is called "Botham's Ashes". Fark Ian Botham.

fusillade762:Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!

steerforth:Incorrect use of the word "dob" in that article. To dob you in means to grass you up. It does not mean nominate.

If the average Aussie can't understand what we are talking about, how's youse poor old Seppos gunna handle it, eh?

Agreed, dob was used way out of it's normal context. I can see it stretching to "nominate" in certain circumstances, (e.g., "Bruce is the only one who hasn't chugged yet! It's his turn!" = dobbing Bruce in) but I was definitely expecting some weird trend of dobbing in your mates to the coppers.

Skol, however, is correct. Normally spelt skull or scull, but it should indeed be skol.